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News: "Boston is choking on traffic congestion." BPDA: "We just approved ~1000 parking spaces to be built on top of South Station." Ummmm...

The MOS does have rental lockers also, which in my experience are very well used.

It's not historic and it's not particularly attractive either. The ground floor is pretty abysmal to pedestrians.

I really hate that with many park renovations lately the City refuses to put benches in them. I'm guessing they're trying to discourage homeless people, but it seems like a really flawed strategy. People need comfortable places to sit!

I personally get car-sick when I try to read or do something (as a passenger) in stop-and-go-traffic, so I suspect that for many people, working in an autonomous car won't be particularly viable. A train is a much smoother and more comfortable ride.

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/double-standards-at-the-mbta/

I don't understand why it's necessary to remove a crosswalk in order to give signal priority to the 57. Seems strange to me.

My thought for connecting SL 1/2/3 and SL 4/5 would be to create a portal at South Station and convert Essex St into a two-way bus (and bike)-only roadway.

The biggest issue IMO with transit to the Seaport is that because the SL ends at South Station, it's a 2 seat ride MINIMUM for pretty much everyone. Red Line and SL4 riders can do it in 2 seats. Transfer to every other line require a 3 seat ride. Especially at off-peak times when traffic isn't...

WTF is wrong with architects today?!

I agree with the comments about massing. For me, it's not the total size that's the problem. I'm totally fine with the number of units. We clearly need more housing. I have no worries about the parking situation. It's that the details feel very out of scale with the surrounding buildings. The...

It's mainly an aesthetic thing, I think. Changes in height between buildings tend to look better when they step up rather than having a 2-3 story building directly next to a 7 story building. I also think the massing is a problem. The scale of the details in the new building feels off...

Agreed. Given that most buildings in this area are about 3 stories tall, 7 is a bit much. If anything, I would say that 4 stories should probably be the max at this particular location. It's isolated and not around a transit hub or anything like that either, where pushing the height might be...

Would there be any benefit to subdividing the lot and developing them separately?

I often get annoyed that when they redid the Filene's building, they didn't include overhangs along the entire facade. (They only included them at building entrances.) Unlike the Macy's building, which has a continuous overhang on two sides, and is a GREAT place to walk when it's raining or snowing.

Wow what a turd.

"Were the street layouts just planned 10+ years ago?" Yes.

We should be electrifying the commuter rail if for no other reason that it will have immediate health and environmental benefits to all the communities it runs through. The air pollution when a train starts up at a station has been shown to be significant, and damages the health of everyone in...

The City is waiting for the adjacent development to be completed before ripping out the median and rebuilding Harrison St with protected bike lanes. The developers are widening the sidewalks first.

12' lanes makes sense here because the roadway is really limited access rather than a surface street. Hence why there is a separate bike/ped path rather than sidewalk + bike lanes.